May the 4th be with you. To celebrate Star Wars Day, we've tracked down the real-life locations from the intergalactic franchise.

Skellig Islands

The wild, windswept Skellig Islands, off Ireland's Kerry coast and described by Irish poet George Bernard Shaw as an "incredible, impossible, mad place", were among the filming locations in Star Wars: The Force Awakens - and appear prominently in the latest installment. Getting to Skellig Michael, which holds the remains of a sixth century monastery, isn't easy - the sea crossing is only possible in summer (weather permitting) and numbers are limited.

The monastery was abandoned in the twelfth century – but today the conserved remains of its beehive cells still perch on the rock eight hundred feet above the waves. Both islands are also linchpin bird sanctuaries – small wonder, then, that the Skelligs are one of Ireland’s three World Heritage sites.